REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5497 - AN ACT AMENDING REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED THREE HUNDRED AND FOUR, ENTITLED "AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE REGISTRATION OF THE CLAIMS OF ALL OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES, ITS BRANCHES AND INSTRUMENTALITIES AND THE CORPORATIONS OWNED OR CONTROLLED BY THE GOVERNMENT AND THOSE OF THE FREE LOCAL CIVIL GOVERNMENTS, PROVINCIAL AND MUNICIPAL, DULY ORGANIZED FOR PURPOSES OF RESISTANCE AGAINST THE ENEMY, TO SALARIES AND WAGES DURING THE ENEMY OK JAPANESE OCCUPATION OF THE PHILIPPINES AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE MANNER OF THEIR SETTLEMENT."

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:

SECTION 1. Section one of Republic Act Numbered Three Hundred and four, as amended by Republic Act Numbered Eight hundred ninety-seven, is further amended by adding thereto the following: "Provided, further , That for the purpose of this Act, a person shall be considered member of any guerrilla forces duly recognized by the army of the United States if his name appears in the reconstructed roster furnished by the United States army to the Philippines or if his name has been deleted from the reconstructed roster of troops, the record repositories of the Armed Forces of the Philippines shall show that he served in a duly recognized guerrilla unit whose recognition was never revoked and that he was processed or returned to or under the military control and/or under the said unit and he actually received his arrears in pay: from the United States army: Provided, finally , That no member of any recognized guerrilla forces under this Act as herein amended, shall be entitled to its benefits unless he has filed his application for such benefits within the period fixed by law." SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved, June 21, 1969.